Morality and Value Systems

Axiology has a plethora of products. Yet if morality describes what people actually do regarding behavioral norms, wicked behavior counts as much as ideal systems designed by philosophers. The first civilization mentioned in Genesis was destroyed for the wicked ways of the people. Humans had pretty bad morals 10 or 20 thousand years ago. A non-battle site at a village excavated in the Middle East found that about 80% of the people had died from crushed skulls. Police weren't about for a few thousand years.

God is a light in the darkness for humanity. The God of Abraham and His Son Jesus Christ have reached a billion people with the word and some element of faith at least nominally, yet it would be an over reach to say that human morality is primarily based on divine inspiration. It may be so that the world’s major religions have shaped at least nominally the majority of the systems of 8 billion living people. I don’t believe there is any sort of pro forma adherence to the morality of major religious systems that govern day to day life of a majority though, as if they were strict Jews in the Temple era before God with the Lord brought a new covenant as promised.

The sort of morality people of the west have today probably has a fiscal basis reflecting permissible behavior in regard to a political economy rather than Christian ethics or perhaps those of some other religious system.

Secular humanism’s practical focus isn’t much different from the humanism that even Christians have accepted. I attended one theology school where there seemed to be agreement that asceticism isn’t popular today. I suppose most commercial Christians sleep on mattresses and take baths instead of sleeping on the ground and get a shower every few months. They probably use worldly medical care generally. It didn’t seem like Jesus would eschew common goods; it’s just the value one fixes them with that matter. If one focuses on God and His will the Lord said He would provide. He mentioned that a human is worth many sparrows, and sparrows are provided for. https://www.udio.com/songs/wKdkBuPCwuTayHZ8RWiBtp

What is Meant by 'Atheists Have No Morals'

Divine command moral norms following Moses and Deuteronomy were plain and simple. Alternatively modern godless individuals haven’t anything moral to believe in besides that which they construct. As a result personal egoism is then an acceptable moral standard, as well as The Prince and evolution criteria for survival and advancement of the most cunning liars when that works. That is there is nothing implicitly wrong with deceit for atheists have transitioned to the beyond good and evil judgmentalism.

That is what is meant when people say that atheists have no morality.

I believe that moral norms need to be socially pervasive to be considered morality. Moral norms are values for a society. If the actions are simply those of individuals and accountability by retribution then there isn’t any morality present. In the absence of standard morality where everyone acts according to their own will and retribution by others is the way things are morality doesn’t exist. Consider the difference between standard-industry wide plug in jacks for computer chargers and one where every manufacturer has their own sizes and shapes; one cannot then say that a standard value exists or the size and shape of the jacks is a moral standard so they all fit interchangebly. Moral behavior is just another category of things.

I once took a coursera course from Yale on moralities of everyday life. The course was left oriented to a certain extent and they found that the ethics and morals of atheist Democrats is quite different from that of conservatives. Actually there are even regional differences. Keep in mind the first commandment though mentioned by Jesus in Matthew. ““Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself” (Matt 22:37–39). https://www.coursera.org/learn/moralities